My meeting on Tuesday with BBC Radio Light Entertainment went ahead as planned and I pitched the three ideas I mentioned in the previous entry. To be honest, the response wasn't as positive as I'd hoped, but it wasn't all bad news.
They quite liked Cell Mates, my bumbling terror cell comedy, but sadly felt it was too similar in subject matter to something already in development, a sitcom called Boyz in the Hoodz about three friends who set up Bristol's first Ku Klux Klan chapter.
Frankly they weren't at all keen on Alien Flatshare, saying that they felt that the idea of six different alien species sharing an off-planet domestic situation had been done to death. I'd not even heard of Six Degrees of Alienation, which was apparently broadcast on Radio 4 last year, so that was all a bit embarrassing. Mental note to self: do your research.
They did, however, feel that The Spearmint Badger "had legs" (their pun, not mine) so I'm going to spend some time over the next few days working that up into a full treatment.
They also gave me a tantalising sneak preview of some of the programmes that would be hitting the airwaves in the Spring, including a six-part comedy series about a pair of homosexual ghosts who become foster parents to a living child, called My Two Dead Dads.
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